"The mind of Shakspeare was as a magic mirror, in which all human nature's possible forms and combinations were present, intuitively and inherently-not conceived_but as connatural portions of his own humanity." Quarterly Review. I set you up a glass, Where you may see the inmost part of you. 36---iii. 4. NOBLE CHARACTERS, ACCORDING TO THEIR RESPECTIVE VIRTUES AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS. 1 It much repairs me To talk of your good father: In his youth And bow'd his eminent top to their low ranks, In their poor praise he humbled: Such a man Which follow'd well, would demonstrate them now His plausive words He scatter'd not in ears, but grafted them, * To grow there, and to bear,—Let me not live,— On the catastrophe and heel of pastime, To repair, signifies to renovate. Of younger spirits, whose apprehensive senses 2 11-i. 2. A son, who is the theme of honour's tongue; 3 He is gracious, if he be observed;© 18-. il. Yet notwithstanding, being incensed, he's flint; 4 19-iv. 4. Never a man's thought in the world keeps the road-way better than thine. 5 The tide of blood in me 19-ii. 2. Hath proudly flow'd in vanity, till now: 6 19-v. 2. I have spirit to do any thing that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit. 7 This fellow 's. of exceeding honesty, b Perhaps feathers. 5-iii. 1. c Has an attention shewn him. d He abounds in capricious fancies, as winter abounds in moisture. And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. 8 37-iii. 3. I suppose him virtuous, know him noble, A gracious person. e 9 4-i. 5. Your desert speaks loud, and I should wrong it, When it deserves with characters of brass A forted residence, 'gainst the tooth of time, 10 The man is noble, and his fame folds in This orb o' the earth. 11 There is a kind of character in thy life, That, to the observer, doth thy history 5-v. 1. 28-v. 5. Fully unfold. 5-i. 1. 12 Thou had'st rather Follow thine enemy in a fiery gulf, Than flatter him in a bower. 28-iii. 2. He's gentle; never school'd, and yet learned; full of noble device; of all sorts enchantingly beloved. 10-i. 1. 15 He is precise; Stands at a guard with envy; scarce confesses, e Well spoken of by the world. Of all ranks. On his defence. That his blood flows, or that his appetite 16 5-i. 4. My blood hath been too cold and temperate, Which the proud soul ne'er pays, but to the proud. 17 He doth rely on none; But carries on the stream of his dispose, 18 18-i. 3. 26-ii. 3. I have of late (but, wherefore, I know not), lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises: and, indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition, that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a steril promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me, than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. 36-ii. 2. 19 My love doth so approve him, That even his stubbornness, his checks, and frowns, Have grace and favour in them. 20 Whose nature is so far from doing harms, That he suspects none. 21 37-iv, 3. His years but young, but his experience old; h Disposition. 34-i. 2. |